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HolysUc medicine? Walnut Creek, Calif. LEON LUKASZEWSKI Utility Infielder Corona, Calif. To the Editors: Further on media knowl- To the Editors: With reference to your spe- edge of...
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...If the desirable change does take place, it must not be at the expense of the ecclesial and communitarian nature of the eucharistic meal, where we are the common (and not merely personal or individual) companions of God...
...To the Editors: Further on media knowl- To the Editors: With reference to your speedge of religion [February 24]: An inter- cial issue on religion and the media, I have view in the San Francisco Chronicle been following the work of one of your [February 5] made reference to a cancer Forum panelists, John Dart, in the Los Anpatient going to Lourdes, followed by a geles Times for many years...
...Was it a net papolatry [sic...
...Do the liberation theologians provide us with a new emerging paradigm forcing new questions and new locations from which we must query the word of God...
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...Adalbert is a distinguished monastic scholar, and this book will be of interest mainly to those in the cloister...
...Not content with the Enlightenment' s self-myth, i propose that it needs to be transcended, not fought tooth-and7 April 1995:29...
...The proof Kting adduces gain for Christian living that the Western is a minor treatise ("Against the Errors of church abandoned the discipline of absti- the Greeks") which defends papal primanence and fasting...
...Unfortunately reading--and indicates once again why the media have transposed it into "Good Commonweal is so essential to the Catholic news is no news...
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...Kiing faults Aquinas for his failure to engage in a dialogue with Islam at any level beyond that of the philosophical...
...What we liked: Pope John Paul II's Crossing the Threshold of Hope (though the interviewer was truly emetic--good thing that was a light breakfast...
...In sum: a book which manages to put forth ideas that may be worthwhile considering beyond the rather narrow audience for whom it was intended...
...The holy Bread is not broken to divide the community into isolated souls, but to bring us together in the sharing of the one loaf, as in the same cup...
...Interestingly, helpful editorial explanation: "(a foreign he' s a versatile writer, having covered one hospital...
...He admits that his torian from Kiing the polemicist and pareremetical life makes it easier to follow such tisan...
...FREDERICK R. McMANUS The writer is professor emeritus in canon law at The Catholic University of America...
...2:7 April 1995 ly there is none if we believe that Jesus is Lord, the Head of the ecclesial body that celebrates the Eucharist...
...His disthose in community to regain this ancient form of living...
...RAYMOND P. GAUER Marilyn Kramer [Correspondence, March 10] repeats a common fallacy, that must have responded that he simply want- the reformed "liturgy does not permit ed "more" for workers, but I think it was any space or quiet time for such contemSamuel Gompers who used that same phrase some years earlier in differentiat- Lupton, Mich...
...Kting does this by a brief study of seven pivotal...
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...For the Record: Except where oth- monweal for Nathan Mitchell's splendid erwise indicated, the Bible translation article on Eucharistic presence [January used in Jack Miles's March 10, 1995, ar- 27] and his later response to Robert ticle "A Literary Reading of the Book of Imbelli's letter [March 10...
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...HENRY ELDEN Smyth did not serve in Bismarck, North Dakota, as our "Report on Ireland," states (March 10, 1995...
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...Before Pope John Paul II visited ly oriented groups such as the International Detroit, church officials asked and reWorkers of the World...
...He then argues further that Aquinas is not a creator of new paradigms because Thomas not too oriented to the rather hermetic world of Germany...
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...i~9 ~:~ ~ ~!~i~i~ii!ii!i~ I . . . . . . . thinkers in the history of theology: Paul, Origen, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Schleiermacher, and Barth...
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...It is sadly the case that the latter Kting a practice, but he thinks it is possible for sometimes overwhelms the former...
...the communion song sung by all should show that we share in the common meal of the Christian family...
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...Father Adalbert has some words on this latter question that may repay reading...
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...Schleiermacher may be important for the development of that theology, but was he more crucial than Newman (whose influence would be felt at Vatican II) or Kierkegaard (who was the fons et origo of modem existentialism...
...Is it curious that pre- cy against the Eastern church...
...To the Editors: Dennis O'Brien's academically astute positioning of my Beyond Naive Belief[March 10] within the context of "Scripture for Skeptics" ignores its other audiences: both the overly credulous and those struggling against a clerical establishment that substitutes obedience for faith...
...Incidentally, George Meany, to be sure, WILLIAM B. NEENAN, S.J...
...to to trace the growth of papal claims one focus ourselves for prayer or the liturgy, should look at the canonists and the etc...
...How is it done...
...Hans Kiing' s recent work is an attempt to provide a"simple introduction to Christian theology" with a double focus: What is its subject matter...
...that would not be simply a form of Franciscans involved in the poverty debate...
...The plain cisely at the time when such a discipline fact of the matter is that Thomas was a loyal was modified practically out of existence son of Rome but papal claims were hardwe had an explosion in the West of diet ly his major concern (in the Summa papal plans, fat farms, calorie counting, and the claims merit only a glance...
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...and whether or not he provided a paradigm shift in theology...
...Kilng is a theologian with a point of view and a sharp critical sense...
...and dean of faculties at Boston College...
...Is his influence more lasting than that of Tillich...
...Each thinker gets a long chapter in which Kiing focuses on the fidelity of each to the message of Jesus Christ...
...What is Apart from such polemics one must also the precise relationship of prayer, alms- wonder whether Kiing's theology is just giving, and fasting---those "acts of religion" (as the Catechism of the Catholic Church calls them...
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...These and other questions came into my head as I read this unfailingly interesting but idiosyncratic tour of the theological horizon...
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...In accord with Vatican II' s clear mandate, the missal of Paul VI calls for periods of (communal) silence at the penitential rite and after the invitations to pray, at the conclusion of a reading or homily, and after Communion...
...Nonetheless, the author raises some important tangential questions for the church that "put his theology at the service of dogmatic merit at least some reflection...
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...Indeed, Kting's continuing contribution to current theological debates may well be the gadfly energy with which he forces us to respond to his urgent sense of what theology is and how it is to be articulated...
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